Robert Garcia
NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Adjunct Professor, Stanford Law School
robert.garcia@alumni.stanford.org

Jane McBride
former CALI Director of Curriculum Development

Riots and Rebellion is a CD-ROM casebook that contains both text and videos including the videos of the beating of Rodney King, footage shot during the riots and rebellion in Los Angeles in 1992 and the security camera tape of the shooting of Latasha Harlins. The book is suitable for courses in civil rights, criminal procedure, clinical legal education, and critical race theory.

The text portion of Riots and Rebellion includes traditional materials such as civil rights statutes and United States Supreme Court cases defining the permissible use of force by the police and municipal liability for police misconduct. The book also contains innovative materials such as excerpts from the Christopher Commission Report on the Los Angeles Police Department, excerpts from Anna Deveare Smith's play Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, and journalistic accounts of life in Los Angeles from the time of the Watts Riots to the present. The CD-ROM also includes the full text of the Christopher Commission Report, the Kolts Report on the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, and the Webster Report on the 1992 riots and rebellion.

Robert Garcia will discuss and demonstrate the e-book and Jane McBride will discuss the intellectual property hurdles to allow for the publication of Riots & Rebellion.